Windthrow events in the forest zone of Western Siberia in 2001-2020

The dataset contains spatially explicit information on windthrow events in the forest zone of Western Siberia for the period 2001-2020. Windthrow data was obtained from Landsat, Sentinel-2 satellite images, Global Forest Change data, and high-resolution satellite images from open map services. To define the dates and time of storm events, weather stations observations, images from meteorological satellites, and information on hazardous weather events was used. The compiled database includes 25774 elementary damaged areas (singlepart polygons), which are grouped to 265 different windthrow areas (multipart polygons). These windthrow areas are associated with 158 different storm events. The data is provided in .shp files. ArcMap and QGIS projects have been created for viewing the data. Attribute information on each windthrow area includes the type of weather event causing them (squall, tornado or non-convective storm), event certainty degree, storm event date (or date range), data sources for windthrow delineation and event type determination, geometric characteristics (area, length, mean and maximum width), and also information from the nearest weather station and external URL (if available).